Title :
Highly flexible feeding of components for automatic assembly. The SyFA module
Author :
Hongler, Max-Oliver ; Jacot, J. ; Ney, Paul ; Arrieta, F. ; Ryser, O. ; Gertsch, C. ; Lopez, J.-L. ; Marques, Renata
Author_Institution :
Departement de Microtechnique, Ecole Polytech. Fed. de Lausanne, Switzerland
Abstract :
A new highly flexible components feeder used in automatic assembly lines is presented. Flexibility is gained by the joint use of a vision system and a vibrating tooling plate which simultaneously acts as a separating and an orienting mechanism. A detailed mathematical modeling of the dynamics is derived. The modeling fully takes into account the random nature of the mechanisms which are used to extract out of a bulk of randomly oriented parts, those exhibiting a prescribed orientation.
Keywords :
assembling; computer vision; dynamics; materials handling; vibrations; SyFA module; automatic assembly; highly-flexible component feeding; mathematical modeling; orienting mechanism; randomly oriented parts; separating mechanism; vibrating tooling plate; vision system; Assembly systems; Costs; Design engineering; Machine vision; Mathematical model; Production; Prototypes; Research and development; Service robots; Video equipment;
Conference_Titel :
Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, 2001. Proceedings. 2001 8th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Antibes-Juan les Pins, France
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7241-7
DOI :
10.1109/ETFA.2001.996421
